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The playwright, novelist and essayist Carl Zuckmayer became
first active during the time of German Expressionism. With the
publication of Der fröhliche
Weinberg [The Merry Vineyard, 1925] he was
instrumental in bringing Expressionism to an end. Thus he was one
of the initiators of the drama of New Objectivity. He was one of
the most popular playwrights of the Weimar Republic and, next to
Bertolt Brecht, the most widely performed dramatist in West Germany
in the first years after World War II.

Carl Zuckmayer was born on 27 December 1896 in the wine
producing small town of Nackenheim close to the River Rhine. His
father owned a factory that made caps for wine bottles in nearby
Mainz. His …

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